Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-01-20
MISSOURI coLoRED SCHOOLS.


lust the same as are the white schools of
the district. The enumeration of white
and colored children must be kept
| separate. as the State Constitution requires
| that the white and colored children shall
be taught in separate schools This sub
ject will be presented under all con-
ceivable phases, as follows:
/. Whenever there are more than fifteen
colored children in any school district. the
board must maintain schools for both
white and colored children: said schools
must be taught the same length of time,
! /. G., the same number of days. If the
white school runs six months, the colored
| school must be maintained for six months :;
| the colored school must be run just the
| same as though it were a separate white
! school. The teachers of both schools must
! be paid in the same way, i. e., by warrants
| drawn. s'By order of the Board" upon
I! the ''Teachers's FUND.- of the district.
No need of pntting ''colored'' on colored
| teachers warrant. There is no such thing
| as a ''Colored Fund" ga Mo-, 426).
| Boards can not plead scarcity of funds in
| Justification of their giving the colored
children shorter term OF school than is
| furnished to the white children of the dis
! trict; and boards that fail to comply with
| these provisions of our law, lay them
| selves liable to prosecution and fine, un-
| der section of 1906 Mandamus will lie
| against any board refusing to carry out
the law, set out in Section 7o52.
| No per capita division of the money full
! fls the requirements of the law, it is SIM
ply a matter of time, i. E., ''the terms and
advantages of said schools shall be equal
to other schools of the same grade in their
| respective districts, cities and villages"
| 2. When the mum Der of colored children
| within the district-by actual count ct the
| time-shall be less than sixteen, they
shall have the privilege of attending
school in any district in the congressional
| township where school is maintained
| for colored children, and the board of
directors of the district in which
| such children are enumerated shall
| transfer to the credit of the teach
ers' fund of the district in which such
children may have attended school, an
| amount equal to the pro rata expense of
such attendance, the same to be prorated
! according to the amount paid for teachers
| wages during such school term
! This is a privilege the white children do
! not possess; and no teacher or board can
hinder such children from attending any
I school they may select in the township,
under the foregoing conditions; nor can
| the directors Of the district from which
/ such children come refuse to pay such tut
! The directors of the district wherein
| these children attend school must have a
correct record kept of the number of days
| attended by such children (also those Of
| the DISSATISFACTION 7O7S) and at the end
/ of the term divide the amount paid for
| teachers wages for such school term by
| the whole number Of days attended by all
| the children enrolled; this will give the
| cost per day for each child. Multiply this
amount by the number of days attended
by pupils from any given district IN the
township, and you will get the amount
for which said directors shall make
requisition on the board of directors
of the district in which such chill
dren were living at the time; and the di-
rectOrs, receiving the notice officially.
shall, by order of the Board,'' issue an
order On the county treasurer to transfer
said amount from the teachers fund of
their district to the credit of the district
| to which they are indebted. By agreement
between board controlling such school
and the directors of any district outside
the congressional township children may
be admitted. This does not mean that such
money must be reserved from one year 10
the next, but it shall not be expended
On the white children, provided such
colored children attend school that year.
Each school year must provide for itself;
therefore, fthe colored children Of any dis
trict do not take advantage of the privilege
thus afforded them, the board can legally
use such money to pay for the white school
of the district. Where children of the
same township attend school in another
district, they are entitled to attend for the
same length of time the white school is
maintained in the district from which
they come and il which they reside.
3. When two or more adjacent districts
have within their respective limits, each,
less than sixteen children, but when joined
have sixteen or more children. it is the
duty of the boards of such districts, upon
receipt of a petition setting forth this fact,
land enclosing a list of the names of the
colored youth resident in such territory
to establish and maintain a school for
such colored children, the expenses of
which must be paid as set forth in section
7056, i. e.. in proportion to the assessed val
uation of the several districts thus joined.
No special levy is required for this pur-
pose: but from the money to the credit of
teachers funds in the several districts the
colored school must be maintained. The
board can not return an estimate for more
than forty cents on the one hundred dol
lars valuation, unless the same was voted
in accordance with section 1853.
The length of such school must
be the average time the districts thus
Joined sustain the white schools there
in. i. e.. supposed three districts
join to have a colored school by section
1853: one district has four months
white school, one five months, and one
seven months; now, it is evident that the
colored school must be kept open one hun
dred and six days. For such school the
board can not build a house, unless the
people first vote the money for that pur-
A. ~, H., e.
colored children endeavor to work out of
paying their just portion by claiming that
they only have to pay in proportion to the
number of children sent to such school;
but the law says that each district must
pay in proportion to the assessed valua-
ton thereof.
f. Where there are only few children
in township, not enough to maintain
school, great mplaint is sometimes made
because they are deprived of school privi-
leges; but, before saying too much, it may
be well to remember that there sections of
Southern Missouri SO sparsely settled that
the number of white children required to
organize school can not be secured with
in the proper limits of a school district,
therefore the children are in the same con-
dition as those colored children located
in congressional townships having less
than sixteen colored children But these
children should be allowed to at
tend some colored school, and the
board should pay their tuition, on cost
of teachers salary, as set forth in section
1852, or on some agreement with the board
where they attend school.
). Whenever any district shall neglect
or refuse to provide a school for colored
chiidren-there being more than fifteen
such children of school age in the district
the county court is empowered to pro-
vide house, furnish the same, employ